The Rough Guide to French Hotels & Restaurants 8 (Rough Guide Travel Guides)

Paperback - 19 December, 2005 - Rough Guides
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By: Philippe Gloaguen
ISBN: 1843535572

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Authentic Advice

I have found the Rough Guide (in English) or Routard (French) the second most useful hotel and food guidebook for France, after the Michelin Red Guide. I take both along because The Rough Guide offers less expensive suggestions, its range sometimes bridging from Michelin to Let's Go (the specialists for cheap). The Rough Guide includes more remarks than Michelin, so it's the sort of guide that is worth checking out before arriving, to find places you'll like. I agree with another reviewer that it offers listings for more towns than many popular U.S. issued books for France, so it's especially useful for those of us loving the countryside and finding the byways.

Indispensible for independent travelers!

Do you dream of renting a car and roaming France wherever a tree-lined road takes you? Of being able to be captivated by the flowers and stones of a quiet town and wish you could stay one night? This book is the English translation of the Guide Routard, relied upon by the French for their vacations with dead-on descriptions of hotels and restaurants most of us can afford. With this book you can confidently soujourn so far off the beaten path that you may well be the only American that hotel will see this year -- or at least maybe this week.

The hotels listed are the best of the two stars, meaning that you'll find character if not always the firmest of mattresses. The restaurants are truly the best that France has to offer for the local night out and the family Sunday lunch. I wouldn't hesitate to stop at any of their suggestions and I know I won't break the vacation budget.

not enough listings

The Rough Guide is an English language edition of the Rotard one published in France. As stated in the introduction, it specializes in presenting medium to small, independent, appealing, and affordable restaurants and hotels. It is comprehensive in that it covers all of France. However, it is less than comprehensive in its coverage of individual locales. For some towns that are well known destinations, barely one or more listings are sometimes given. These places must certainly have more choices that meet the criteria of the Rough Guide, and, in fact, by consulting other guidebooks I have found other choices that by their description ought to be in the Rough Guide.

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